The Arts Appreciation group is wide-ranging, taking in all types of art and practical crafts, the visual arts, painting, sculpture, ceramics and architecture. Group members are active participants, and are encouraged to make a contribution to or organising meetings and visits.

We are led by the interests of members, so if a medium is of interest to you, it is of interest to us, and we would like to hear about it.

If you are interested in joining the group please let Sue Moller know by using the contact form.

On Wednesday 17th September we went on a trip to the Hereford Cathedral to see the Thomas Treherne windows. Here is some information about him:

The Discovery of Traherne
The remarkable tale of how we come to know the name of Traherne is worth telling, for he was almost lost to future generations several times over. The only work he had published in his lifetime was an anti-Catholic polemic, Roman Forgeries (1673), and of the two more works now known to be by him – published later in the 17th century after his death – neither carried their author’s name. But in the winter of 1896, the bibliophile W.T. Brooke bought two manuscripts from an antiquarian barrow book dealer on the Farringdon Road in London. Initially the manuscript poems were thought to be by Henry Vaughan, but eventually some inspired literary detective work by the second-hand bookseller, Bertram Dobell, correctly located them as being by the same author as the Roman Forgeries.

The astounding process of discovery has just grown and grown in the 110 years since. Works by Traherne have been pulled from burning rubbish tips in Lancashire, identified in Canada and America, extracted from the labyrinthine fastnesses of the British Library and unearthed in Lambeth Palace by an academic sheltering from the rain. Nor is the work over, as Traherne scholars confidently predict more findings in the future.
I will bring a small book of his Meditations.

Here is a short film about the artist:
St. Katharine's Windows: The Life and Death of King Richard III by Thomas Denny